In a significant move by one of Australia’s most high-profile aid organisations, the board of Oxfam Australia will now be appointed rather than elected by its 2300 members.
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Who profits from our foreign aid? The untold story of GRM International
For nearly a decade one of Australia’s most successful aid companies and its biggest casino operator were owned by the same company.Wendy Bacon and Flint Duxfield tell the untold story of GRM International.
Special report: In the Pacific, they’re not waving, they’re drowning
On the eve of this week’s Pacific Islands Forum, Oxfam released a report stating that 75 million people in Asia and the Pacific are likely to be displaced by climate change by 2050.
Tips and rumours: The Maldives are sinking too
A Crikey tipster says today: Oxfam AND Crikey have forgotten the Maldives, whose president recently announced he was looking to evacuate his entire 350,000 people to either Sri Lanka or Indonesia.
Kiribati and Tuvalu climate change strategy: total evacuation
Climate change is already having major effects on Pacific Island states, says a new report from Oxfam. Australia and New Zealand need to stop hoping the problem will go away.
